Current Affairs

What Does Moral Philosophy Tell Us About Our Obligation To Stop Climate Change?


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Today Nathan is joined by Oxford University philosophy professor Henry Shue, author of Climate Justice and most recently The Pivotal Generation: Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now. Prof. Shue's new book is about the moral obligations conferred on people by the historical circumstances they find themselves in. The actions of living people have huge consequences for those born to subsequent generations. What responsibilities do we have to those who come after us? We discuss:
- The important questions of justice that need to be central to the climate discussion
- Why people living in the future are just as morally important as people living now
- What elementary principles of moral philosophy can tell us about the political action we need to take on climate
- Why individual lifestyle choices are insufficient to fulfill our moral responsibilities
- What those countries most responsible for the climate crisis owe to those who will suffer the most from it
Edited by Tim Gray
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